Speed & performanceHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: faster on phones
Our handmade shop site feels slow on phones. Test the homepage and the Shop page, tell me the 3 biggest problems in plain words, and fix what you safely can.
Playbook › Handmade & craft shops
Plays for handmade & craft shops
Plays written for handmade shop websites: handmade candles, soaps and gifts, for gift buyers who love handmade things. Copy one, fill in your details, and PressHelm does the work on your WordPress site.
Also useful: get to know your site, maintenance and seasonal campaigns.
38 plays. Tap “Copy prompt”, fill in the [highlighted] parts, and send it to PressHelm.
Schedules & monitoringHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: Monday morning report
Every Monday at 9:00, send me a short report for our handmade shop site: new comments and messages, updates waiting, anything broken, and how fast the homepage is.
Get to know your siteHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: five-minute site check
Give our handmade shop site a quick check: is the Shop page fast on phones, does the wholesale enquiry form send, are there errors or updates waiting? Five lines at most.
Email & formsHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: wholesale enquiry form
Add a wholesale enquiry form to the [page name] page with these fields: name, shop name, email, products of interest. Send submissions to [your email] and show a friendly thank-you message.
Email & formsHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: wholesale enquiry emails not arriving
People say our wholesale enquiry emails don’t arrive. Check how the site sends email and our domain’s setup, and tell me exactly what to fix.
SEO & content qualityHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: SEO titles for “handmade candles”
Write SEO titles and meta descriptions for our main pages so we show up for “handmade candles”. Natural wording, no keyword stuffing. Show them to me before saving.
WooCommerceHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: add a lavender soy candle to the shop
Create a product for a lavender soy candle, price [price], with a description that speaks to gift buyers who love handmade things, using the photo I’m sending. Save it as a draft.
WooCommerceHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: sale for the Christmas gift season
Put all products in “[category]” on a [15]% sale for the Christmas gift season, from [start date] to [end date].
WooCommerceHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: low-stock check
Which of our products are low on stock or sold out? List them with their stock numbers, most urgent first.
Marketing & campaignsHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: campaign for the Christmas gift season
Plan our campaign for the Christmas gift season: a short landing page about our handmade candles, soaps and gifts, a banner on the homepage until [end date], a matching image, and a blog post. Show me the plan first.
Marketing & campaignsHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: newsletter sign-up
Add a newsletter sign-up section to the homepage for gift buyers who love handmade things, with one line about what they’ll get from our handmade shop and a form for name and email.
Marketing & campaignsHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: announcement bar
Add a slim announcement bar at the top of every page: “[your message, e.g. now taking bookings for the Christmas gift season]”, linking to the Shop page.
Pages & layoutHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: rewrite the homepage hero
Rewrite the homepage hero for our handmade shop: a clear headline about our handmade candles, soaps and gifts, one sentence for gift buyers who love handmade things, and a button to [our booking or contact page]. Keep the current layout.
Pages & layoutHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: build the Shop page
Create a “Shop” page that presents our handmade candles, soaps and gifts with short descriptions and prices: [paste your list]. Easy to scan on phones, with a button to [booking/contact] at the end.
Pages & layoutHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: testimonials section
Add a testimonials section to the homepage with these reviews from our gift buyers who love handmade things: [paste 3 reviews with first names]. Match the page style.
Pages & layoutHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: photo gallery page
Create a Gallery page for our handmade shop with the photos I’m about to send, in a tidy grid with a short caption under each one and good alt text.
Images & mediaHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: AI hero image
Make a wide hero image for our handmade shop website: handmade candles on a wooden table with dried flowers. Natural, real-looking, no text. Show me the model and cost first, then put it at the top of the homepage.
Images & mediaHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: image of a lavender soy candle
Make a square image showing a lavender soy candle for our Shop page, clean and inviting, matching the rest of the site.
Images & mediaHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: lighter photos on Shop
Convert the photos on our Shop page to WebP and shrink any that are wider than 2000 px, so the page loads faster.
Images & mediaHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: 3 social media images
Make 3 square images for social posts about our handmade candles, soaps and gifts, in our brand colours [colours], each with room for a short text.
Images & mediaHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: alt text for every photo
Find all images on our handmade shop site without alt text and write short, descriptive alt text for each one.
Content & bloggingHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: write the About page
Write an About page for our handmade shop: how we started, what makes our handmade candles, soaps and gifts different, and a short team section. Warm and honest, no clichés. Save it as a draft.
Content & bloggingHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: FAQ for gift buyers who love handmade things
Write the 10 questions gift buyers who love handmade things ask a handmade shop most, with short, honest answers, and add them as an FAQ section at the end of the [page name] page.
Content & bloggingHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: blog ideas that bring visitors
Suggest 12 blog post ideas for a handmade shop that gift buyers who love handmade things would search for on Google, grouped by topic. Then write the best one as a draft.
Content & bloggingHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: write “How to burn a candle so it lasts longer”
Write a practical 800-word article “How to burn a candle so it lasts longer” for our blog: useful tips, 3 subheadings, and a friendly call to action to [our booking or contact page] at the end. Save as draft.
Content & bloggingHandmade & craft shops
Handmade shop: organise the blog
Organise our blog into clear categories for a handmade shop (for example: Gift ideas, How it’s made, News), and move existing posts into the right ones. Show me the plan first.
Get to know your site
Give me a tour of my site
What do you see on my site? Give me a short tour: theme, page builder, main plugins, how many pages and posts, and anything that looks off.
Maintenance & updates
Update plugins one by one
Update all plugins with updates waiting, one at a time, checking the site after each. Stop and tell me if anything breaks.
Fix problems
Why is there a white screen?
The [page name] page shows a white screen. Find out why from the error log and tell me the safest fix.
Get to know your site
List plugins with updates
Which plugins, themes or WordPress itself have updates waiting? List them with the version change.
Maintenance & updates
Remove an unused plugin
Deactivate and delete the plugin [name]. Make sure nothing on the site uses it first.
Fix problems
Undo a bad plugin update
Since updating [plugin], the site has errors. Put the previous version back.
Get to know your site
Find plugins I don’t need
Which plugins are inactive or look unused? Explain what each one does and whether it is safe to remove. Don’t change anything yet.
Maintenance & updates
Install a plugin
Find a well-rated plugin for [need], tell me why you chose it, and install it (inactive until I say activate).
Fix problems
Undo the last change
Undo the last change you made.
Get to know your site
Explain why my homepage is slow
Run a speed test on my homepage (mobile) and explain the three biggest problems in plain words. Don’t fix anything yet.
Maintenance & updates
Compare plugins for a job
Compare the 3 best plugins on WordPress.org for [need] by rating, installs and last update.
Fix problems
Put the old homepage back
Put the homepage back to how it was yesterday.